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Michael Lewis' new book "Flash Boys" has whipped up a furious tornado of criticism about high frequency trading. But the market and regulators need to resist the urge to ban the practice and instead embrace the notion of high frequency monitoring and surveillance.

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International banks and other global private entities need to ensure that they do more than pay lip service to the data privacy laws of sovereign states, writes Andrew Waxman of IBM's consulting practice.

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The SEC’s proposed Regulation SCI is intended to protect market technology from outages and technical glitches. But industry commentators contend the rule doesn’t include all market participants and underestimates the implementation costs. Here are five areas that market participants would like to change.

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Michael Lewis' new book "Flash Boys" has whipped up a furious tornado of criticism about high frequency trading. But the market and regulators need to resist the urge to ban the practice and instead embrace the notion of high frequency monitoring and surveillance.

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With the threat of rising rates on the horizon, banks are relying on existing “technologies” to avert the danger, such as duration risk, VaR and dynamic simulation, writes David Renz of SunGard's Ambit Treasury Management solution.

COVER STORYThe Quiet Market Explosion
While most of the industry has been focusing on exotic investment products and emerging markets, the securities lending market has boomed into a $16 trillion business. But with rapid growth comes substantial risk.

INDUSTRY VOICEReducing Market Spend
As the global economy has expanded, the information requirements of the financial services industry and related markets have continued to grow.

PERSPECTIVESWho Said Technology Isn't Important?
While the front office is eminently more glamorous and lucrative, switching front-office providers is easy. Switching a clearing, custody or depository relationship, however, is very hard.

FROM THE EDITORJack Be Nimble
Sometimes, smaller is better. That's not to say there aren't advantages to being part of the Citigroups or Fidelities of the world, where vast sums of capital are available.

CIO CHALLENGEPatent Processing
The Challenge: Given the abundance of technology solutions created in the securities industry, once-ignored intellectual property issues have been forced to the forefront as firms increasingly are settling infringement claims in court. But a flood of new patents could curb innovation.